Scar and Boris were walking through the ground level area of the city with Stella (Or Firefly, as she was known in Equestria, and personally preferred to be called), Nightmare Night was in full swing, and all around them ponies were in costume, though they all looked up in wonder at the two Toa as they walked past. The three of them each had small bag with a modest selection of assorted sweets, whilst the two Toa’s intentions wasn’t originally to collect any sweets, the festive spirit had rubbed off on them.

"You guys couldn't have picked a better time to drop in" Firefly said, before getting a hard boiled sweet out of her collection bag and popping it in her mouth, she had archaic runes covering body, and the occasional bolt of lightning would dance between the lines of the runes "you fit right in and you look awesome, but not as awesome as me" the two Toa shared knowing looks.

"Say, I've been think-wondering" Boris said "what happened to your horn?" Firefly frowned and absent-mindedly touched her horn stump with a fore-hoof.

"1000 years ago I helped the Equestrian Princesses to defeat Tirek" she said "I made a mistake and paid the price for it" her whole demeanour suddenly did a complete 180 and she brightened up.

"Eh, I'm still as awesome as ever" she said, giving a shrug "and I've still got magic, so there's that, right?" the two Toa shrugged.

"I guess" Scar said "we don't have to rely on magic, we use the elemental energies of the universe" he threw his arms out as he said this, Firefly rolled her eyes.

“Sure” she said sarcastically, at that moment a young Sphinx appeared from an alley way and attempted to snatch Firefly’s bag out of her magical grasp, only to end up face planting in the dusty street. Firefly approached the kid in a huff “hey! What do you think you’re doing, kid?” Boris suddenly stood in front of her and she glared at him “Hey! What’s the deal?”

“If I was in her physical condition, I would be sorry-desperate too” he said, before flicking his eyes towards the cub. Firefly followed his gaze and gasped, the cub was practically starved. The Alicorn went to approach her, but she began backing away in fear.

“Hey, kid, I won’t hurt you” she said softly “where are your parents?” the cub hung her head and sniffed, thinking quickly Boris stepped forward and picked her up.

“You don’t have anyone, do you?” he said sadly, she shook her head in response and buried her head into his chest plate. He looked at Scar and Firefly and sighed “Let’s get you something to bite-eat” he looked at Scar and Fire fly and nodded to them, they then started to make their way to the nearest restaurant. What neither the Toa nor Firefly noticed was a large, spire shaped craft of some type appearing in the sky.

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Minion was sat on top of Terror on the top of Visorak Island Mountain, Vinyl and Aurora were sat on a log positioned opposite him. A small campfire burned in the middle. Suddenly Terror spoke up
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"Was ist das!?" he exclaimed. Minion scowled and looked down.

"I thought I told you to shut the..." he was interrupted as two large, spire shaped objects flew overhead "what the hell are those?"

"They're descent path is too perfect for them to be mere space debris, they looked like they were in formation" Terror said, this time Minion didn't chastise the dark Alicorn "looks like they are headed towards Stirrup"

"Meaning?" Minion asked, Terror smirked

"Not good for the citizens of Stirrup" he said.

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*POV 1st person Vuur Koning*

I walked into the throne room with Autumn, Stag and Double. Queen Elizabeth watched me and Autumn with interest, I leant towards Autumn and whispered.

"I bet you 10 bits I can get her to say 'we are not amused' before the day is over"

"20" she replied.

"15" I shot back.

"Done" she said, I straightened up and we all bowed as we stopped in front of the throne

"You may rise" the queen boomed with enough force to blow Autumns mane back, we slowly stood to our full heights and her attention remained solely on myself and Autumn “why did you come here?” I stepped forward a couple of paces.

“Your majesty, I am Toa Vuur Koning; High-lord General of the Terra union army” I said “both myself and Toa Autumn Skies; my second in command, stand humbly before you to ask a favour” I paused in case she wanted to ask anything.

“Continue” she said.

“We have been displaced from our star-bound transport” I said “for reasons I know not, we merely ask of you two things. One is that you contact other nations to see if they have encountered the rest of my team”

“And what of the other favour?” she asked.

“That if at all possible, you could request the presence of the princesses of Equestria. We are from a world that is a parallel of this one, and I personally know that world’s equivalents to Celestia and Luna, I feel it would be easier to contact them if it was a parallel individual sending out a beacon” she thought for a moment before answering.

“Your requests are fair, and your reasoning just” she said “very well, we will carry out your requests, for now you are free to traverse the city as you wish. We will send a guard to escort you back to the palace when we have made headway” we all bowed before turning and leaving.

“You didn’t get her to say it” Autumn whispered.

“Give it time” I hissed.

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*POV 3rd person. Location: Bardingburgh*

The two Neu-Toa and Firefly were in a restaurant, sat at their table was the orphaned Sphinx cub, who was currently consuming a soup with much gusto.

“How can a kid just be left on the streets to fend for themselves?” Firefly whispered indignantly to the Two Neu-Toa.

“I don’t know” Boris said, frowning “What I do know is I’m not gonna let her get bad-hurt anymore” the other two looked at him in surprise.

“You’re not thinking of adopting her, are you?” Scar asked, Boris nodded “look, I’m just as angry about it as you are, but I’m sure the orphanages here can take care of her, right Firefly” the Alicorn nodded.

“Yeah” she said “you don’t need to worry about it, if needs be I can order an orphanage to take her in”

“Please, don’t!” the cub pleaded, they all looked at her and she lowered her head in shame “I don’t want to go back, that’s how I ended up on the streets in the first place”

“Did you escape?” Boris asked softly, she nodded, looking shamefaced.

“No one would choose me” she admitted “everyone wanted a pony, and I eat meat, and those that didn’t want a pony thought I looked too much like a pony, and Sphinxes never come to the orphanage”

“You were saying?” Boris said to Scar and Firefly, raising an eyebrow as he spoke “you didn’t even consider what the cub wanted” Scar sighed and leaned back in his chair.

“Alright” he said “fine, but the kid’s your responsibility”

“Sandstorm” the cub said, looking at Scar.

“What?” he asked, confused.

“My name’s Sandstorm” she said.

“Okay then” he said, before turning to Boris “‘Sandstorm’ is your responsibility”

“That’s sure-fine by me” Boris said, Firefly went to say something but was interrupted by the sound of rocket engines firing, they looked into the street to see a spherical flying craft of some type lowering towards the ground. It was a dark, gunmetal colour, with lines similar to a circuit board covering it. It touched down with a dull thud and everyone gathered around in curiosity, the side of the sphere lifted up with a hiss and a 4ft tall humanoid in a blue space suit stepped out wielding a rifle of some kind. Its head was hidden beneath a large, blue helmet with two angular eye holes. Firefly, followed closely by the Neu-Toa and Sandstorm, ran up.

“Alien!” Firefly said, her tone lacked her usual cockiness, and was now much more formal “I am Princess Stella of the nation of Concordia, what is your name and intention”

“Ah yes, know your enemy” the Alien said, before taking his helmet off to reveal a bulbous, brown head “I am Private Strill of the 11th Sontaran battle fleet. I herald your extermination, puny, inferior life form. Sontar Ha!” For a moment no one said anything, Firefly’s stoic façade began to falter until she fell on the ground laughing.

“Bwaa-ha-ha-ha you can’t be serious” she said, before getting up and wiping away a tear “I mean look at you, you look like a baked potato, you aren’t exactly blessed in the height department either”

“You insult me, madam!” The Sontaran exclaimed, before levelling his rifle at Firefly

“Firefly” Scar said “we should run…now”

“Are you kidding me?” she asked, before pointing at the Sontaran “how can you not find that funny, what’s he gonna do, bite my hooves?” Scar dived into her just as the Sontaran fired his rifle, the bolt sailed past them until it hit a unicorn stallion in the chest, killing him instantly. The street dissolved in to panic as everyone began running for their lives to avoid the barrage of rifle fire, curtesy of the Sontaran.

“If I tell you to run, you fucking run!” Scar hissed to Firefly, he stood up and turned to Boris “Take these two to safety”

“What about you?” Boris asked, helping Firefly up.

“I’m gonna give the Sontarans a little welcome party” he said, cracking his knuckles “curtesy of the Terra Union Army” Boris nodded before picking Sandstorm and Firefly up by their waists.

“Ever-sorry, princess” he said, before running and taking off “the wolf-guy wants us out of the way to protect-safe us”

“From them?” she asked, he shook his head and smirked.

“From him” he said, as if to punctuate his point, at that moment an explosion of green and blue energy rocked the street below them and the Sontaran could be hear in the distance screaming before something silenced him.

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*POV 3rd person. Location: West Trottingham*

Garnet wasn’t sure when exactly it had all gone to shit, one moment he was walking through the relatively empty streets with the others, next thing he knew he was on the floor and a building nearby had been reduced to rubble by an explosion. He tried to get up, only to find that his robotic arm was reduced to scrap metal, the end of it sparked and smoked as he tried to move it. His other arm was dislocated, so he couldn’t move that one either

“Damm” he muttered through the pain “well this sucks”

“Oh my gods!” he heard Thel exclaim, he looked up to see her running up to him “Garnet, your arm”

“I’m fine” he said “my left shoulder is dislocated is dislocated. I need you to find Ruby and have her push it back into place” she nodded before running off to find his twin sister. She soon returned with ruby, whose robotic eye was also trashed”

“Snap” he said, nodding his head towards her eye.

“Not funny” she said, helping him up before grabbing hold of his dislocated arm “on three. One…two…three!” it pushed back into place with an audible ‘POP’ and Garnet growled before gingerly moving his arm.

“I need to get this checked out soon” he said, before grabbing what was left of his robotic arm and removing it, he examined it before sighing and chucking it behind him “it needed replacing anyway” he then looked around “where are the others”

“Och eye, what the devil was that!?” they heard Bhradain exclaim, they looked over to see the aforementioned Kelpie, along with Sunny and Breezy. All of them were shakily standing up.

“Bhradain, you’re bleeding!” Breezy exclaimed, pointing at a large gash on his shoulder, he merely shrugged it off.

“Och, I ain’t got time tah bleed!” he replied gruffly, before walking towards the ruined building “Ye’re the aliens, do ye know what could cause his?” he asked, touching a hoof to a piece of rubble.

“Look at the bricks” Ruby said “they’re all melted, this was plasma artillery”

“Meaning?” Breezy asked.

“We have an alien incursion on our hooves” she said, before looking up at the sky, there was two alien ships towards the east and below them the ground had a dull orange glow to it “why does trouble always seem to follow us around”

“It comes with being the adopted children of a couple of Neu-Toa” Garnet said.

“What about Mum and Dad?” Sunny asked, standing close to Breezy and putting a foreleg around one of Breezy’s. Ruby sighed.

“I don’t know, we need to find them and the two changelings” she said.

“I’m willin’ tah bet there near the ships” Bhradain said, nodding towards the alien craft in the distance “how you wanna go about doing this? All together or split up.

“We’ll split up” Garnet said “those that are able to defend themselves can come with, the rest need to find a place to hide” he then walked over to Thel and nuzzled her “I can’t risk you or the baby getting hurt, which is why I need you to take Sunny and go find a safe location”

“I won’t leave you” Thel said.

“Please” Garnet said “don’t make this any harder than it has to be” he could feel his eyes tearing up “If we don’t make it…”

“Don’t say that!” Thel exclaimed.

“If we don’t make it, I want you to take care of Sonny and protect her” he said “You’re the reason I fight, so that you and our kid can grow up in a world free from fear. I promise, I’m gonna do whatever it takes to protect you, and damn anyone who gets in my way” at that moment he felt something in his mind ‘click’ and a flash lit up the corner of his vision. Thel stepped back and gasped.

“Garnet…I don’t believe it!” she exclaimed “you have a cutie mark!” Garnet looked to his flank to see a white shield containing three red stars above two horizontal red stripes, surrounding the shield was an intricate flame pattern.

“But…I thought Kirins didn’t cutie marks” Breezy said.

“We’re the first known Kirins in about 1000 years” Ruby said “not much is known about our kind”

“Well” Bhradain said “This is all very touchin’, but ifin’ ye wanna find yer parents, then we have to leave soon” Garnet leaned close to Thel and nuzzled her one last time.

“I love you” he said, before kissing her on the cheek “I’ll come back to you, this I swear”

“Please be safe” she said, he nodded before running to catch up with Ruby, Breezy and Bhradain.

“Ye done makin’ out with yer wife?” Bhradain asked.

“Shut it, Scotty!” the Kirin shot back, Bhradain bristled at the comment but didn’t say anything as they ran through the streets towards the epicentre of the invasion.

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*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

I dived behind a piece of rubble just as a barrage of plasma fire sailed overhead, the moment the Sontarans had attacked we spent most of the time running from cover to cover, so I hadn’t had time to explain what was happening. Autumn and Double had gotten separated from us, so we were looking for them

“By the gods!” Stag exclaimed as he followed me behind the rubble “Friends of yours?”

“No” I said “Sontarans are a race of clones, bred for one thing”

“And that is?” he asked.

“War” I replied “Why does everywhere I visit end up as a fucking disaster zone!?”

“Because you’re a trouble magnet?” Stag supplied.

“Not helping!” I shouted as I drew two arcane pistols and a com-link, I passed them to Stag and he took them in his magic before putting the headset on “How’s your aim with ranged weapons”

“Reasonable, how many are there?” he asked, I changed to the mask of X-ray vision and peered through the rubble that was acting as our barricade.

“15 in the streets” I said, changing my mask back to the Hau “Think you can handle them? I’ll take the ones on the rooftops” he nodded before his horn glowed, the aura briefly covered his eyes. I nodded to him before drawing my dagger and teleporting onto one of the roofs. It took me a few second to get my bearings but eventually I located a Sontaran sniper, one of four. I held the dagger blade up. Sontaran snipers were much more lightly armoured, and their neck was exposed, they were trained for hit and run tactics and were fitted with a jet pack. I slowly crept behind the sniper before slitting his throat, he slumped to the floor with a gurgle before going still. I ripped the jet pack off and switched to the mask of biomechanics, a mask that allowed basic control of machinery. I then programmed a rough flight path into the jetpack before activating it, it took off with a roar before heading straight for the next sniper and knocking him out. It then banked and headed straight for the sniper next to him, knocking him off the building before flying for the final sniper and knocking him over. The Jetpack then swooped down into the streets, taking out several Sontarans as it exploded.

“Now, Stag!” I shouted through the com-link. I looked down into the street to see Stag stand up and unleash a volley of pistol fire, quickly knocking down the last of the Sontarans. I teleported down just in time to see Stag lift the barrels to his mouth and blow the smoke away.

“I think I'll hold onto these” I went to say something but I was interrupted by my watch beeping, I looked down and immediately focused on one thing

‘Jörmungandr back in range’

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